Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Alternative spelling: Metopioidae
Full reference: A. Förster. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens 25:135-221
Parent taxon: Ophioniformes according to S. Klopfstein et al. 2019
See also Förster 1869, Khalaim 2014, Klopfstein and Spasojevic 2019, Lewis 1969 and Menier et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Anomaloninae, Banchinae, Campopleginae, Cremastinae, Ctenopelmatinae, Mesochorinae, Ophioninae, Tersilochinae, Tryphoninae
Subtaxa: Acerataspis Exochini Hypsicera Metopiosa Periope Spudaeus Triclistus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), United States (1: Washington)
• Oligocene of United States (1: Colorado)
• Eocene of Denmark (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Colorado)
Total: 10 collections including 15 occurrences